Homeopathic Materia Medica

CINA

(cina)

(Worm-seed)
This is a children's remedy,-big, fat, rosy, scrofulous, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints. An irritability of temper, variable appetite, grinding of teeth. and even convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings of the hands and feet, are all within its range of action. The Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly, and wants to be rocked. PAIN IN SHOCKS. Skin sensitive to touch.

Mind
Ill-humor. Child VERY CROSS; does not want to be touched, or crossed, or carried. Desires many things, but rejects everything offered. Abnormal consciousness, as if having committed some evil deed.

Head
Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen. Relieved by stooping. (MEZER.) Pain in head when using eyes.

Stomach
Gets hungry soon after a meal. HUNGRY, digging, gnawing sensation. Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals. Vomiting and diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Desires many and different things. Craving for sweets.

Respiratory
Gagging cough in the morning. Whooping-cough. Violent recurrng paroxysms, as of down in throat. Cough ends in a spasm. Cough so violent as to bring tears and sternal pains; feels as if something had been torn off. Periodic; returning spring and fall. Swallows after coughing. GURGLING FROM THROAT TO STOMACH AFTER COUGHING. Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing. After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.

ExtremitiesTWITCHING and jerking distortion of limbs, trembling. Paralyzed shocks; patient will jump suddenly, as though in pain. Child throws arms from side to side. Nocturnal convulsions. SUDDEN INWARD JERKING OF FINGERS OF RIGHTHAND. CHILD STRETCHES OUT FEET SPASMODICALLY. Left foot in constant spasmodic motion.